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Filming Greece | Film of the Month: Dimos Avdeliodis revisits “The Four Seasons of the Law” twenty years after

November 22, 2019 Filming Greece

The Four Seasons of the Law” by Dimos Avdeliodis, filmed in 1999 and recipient of multiple awards, has been repeatedly voted by Greek film critics as one of the best films of Greek cinema. Set in 1960 on the island of Chios, the story begins after the death…

International Cavafy Summer School 2020: "Cavafy Mediated"

November 21, 2019 Culture | Society

In summer 2020, the International Cavafy Summer School will once more bring together prominent academics, scholars, and young researchers of the work of C. P. Cavafy, one of Modern Greece’s most distinguished and internationally recognised poets. The summer…

Athens Avant-Garde Film Festival celebrates its 10th edition: the tributes and the highlights

November 19, 2019 Culture | Society

The 10th edition of the Athens Avante-Garde Film Festival (AAGFF), organized by the Greek Film Archive, will take place from November 20 until December 5 2019, at the Greek Film Archive (theatres A, B) and ExileRoom, whilst some of its screenings will be…

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  The Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki part of the Open House Event

  Nov 19, 2019 Culture | Society
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  Minos Kalokairinos: the man who discovered Knossos

  Nov 18, 2019 Culture | Society
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  2nd Athens International Children’s Film Festival: Inviting and inclusive

  Nov 15, 2019 Culture | Society
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  China's President in Athens: The deepening of a strategic partnership

  Nov 13, 2019 Politics | Polity
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  BOOK OF THE MONTH: Drifting Cities by Stratis Tsirkas

  Nov 13, 2019 Reading Greece
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  National Marine Park of Alonissos, a gem of biodiversity

  Nov 12, 2019 Culture | Society
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  Record-breaking year for Athens Authentic Marathon

  Nov 11, 2019 Culture | Society
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  The works of the "Greece 2021" Committee are launched

  Nov 08, 2019 Politics | Polity
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  SearchCulture.gr: The digital platform for exploring the Greek Cultural Heritage

  Nov 07, 2019 Business | Innovation | Education
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  “Odyssey” brought to life in Thessaloniki

  Nov 06, 2019 Culture | Society
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  Sec Gen for Public Diplomacy, Religious and Consular Affairs Constantinos Alexandris on building the new image of Greece

  Nov 05, 2019 Politics | Polity
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  The thematic Pavilion of Greece in the 2nd CIIE Expo in Shanghai

  Nov 01, 2019 Business | Innovation | Education
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  60th Thessaloniki International Film Festival: Sixty years of Film Celebration

  Oct 31, 2019 Culture | Society
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  Study Abroad programmes in Greece

  Oct 31, 2019 Business | Innovation | Education
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  7th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art: taking a stance on contemporary social issues

  Oct 30, 2019 Culture | Society
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  Alexander the Great's cause of death

  Oct 29, 2019 Culture | Society
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  The impact of Greek Ohi Day to American public opinion

  Oct 25, 2019 Culture | Society
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  Greece in the 2nd China International Import Expo in Shanghai (5-10/11)

  Oct 24, 2019 Business | Innovation | Education
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  Filming Greece | Nicolas Kolovos on artistic freedom and the power of love in the darkest moments

  Oct 24, 2019 Filming Greece
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  Deciphering Ancient Greek inscriptions using AI “Pythia”

  Oct 21, 2019 Culture | Society
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  Celebrating the 200th anniversary of Greek Revolution with Playmobil figurines

  Oct 18, 2019 Culture | Society
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  13th New York City Greek Film Festival: Greek Cinema in the heart of Manhattan

  Oct 17, 2019 Culture | Society
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  Michael Herzfeld on Modern Greece, comparative research and the future of Anthropology

  Oct 16, 2019 Rethinking Greece
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  Eastern Mediterranean Migration Route Initiative by Greece, Cyprus and Bulgaria

  Oct 15, 2019 Politics | Polity
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  Mountainous Arcadia: A ‘mythical’ destination in the Peloponnese

  Oct 14, 2019 Culture | Society
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  Coming Up: The 16th San Francisco Greek Film Festival (October 20-26)

  Oct 13, 2019 Culture | Society
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  The Business Confucius Institute in Athens

  Oct 10, 2019 Business | Innovation | Education
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  Weaving together the new face of Athens

  Oct 09, 2019 Politics | Polity
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  10th Balkans Beyond Borders Short Film Festival in Athens

  Oct 08, 2019 Culture | Society
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  Sissi Archaeological Project in Crete

  Oct 07, 2019 Culture | Society
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  “Document, exhibit, archive”: History in the making

  Oct 04, 2019 Culture | Society
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  Explore the story of Kapandji Villa, one of Thessaloniki’s top landmarks

  Oct 03, 2019 Culture | Society
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  Goulandris New Museum opens its gates

  Oct 01, 2019 Culture | Society
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  Reading Greece: ‘enasynena’ – an Online Platform on the Combination of Poetry and Short Films

  Sep 30, 2019 Reading Greece
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  Visit the Argolida Castles

  Sep 26, 2019 Culture | Society
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  The first photograph of the Acropolis and its history

  Sep 26, 2019 Culture | Society
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  Climate change: policies and proposals by the Greek government

  Sep 25, 2019 Politics | Polity
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  The Greek winners at the Drama Short Film Festival

  Sep 23, 2019 Culture | Society
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  John K. Campbell and his ethnography of the Sarakatsani: a defining moment for social research in Greece

  Sep 20, 2019 Culture | Society
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  Dimitra Trypani on "The silent one", her experimental music theatre work

  Sep 19, 2019 Arts in Greece
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  Get ready for Animasyros 12 International Animation Festival

  Sep 17, 2019 Culture | Society
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  Team led by Greek astronomer detected water vapour on exoplanet

  Sep 17, 2019 Business | Innovation | Education
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  Reading Greece: Panayotis Ioannidis on Poetry as an Art of Sounds and the Quest to Immortalise the Moment through Words

  Sep 17, 2019 Reading Greece
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  25th Athens International Film Festival: The Highlights

  Sep 16, 2019 Culture | Society
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  The BioPoC Project: Innovative diagnostic medical devices

  Sep 13, 2019 Business | Innovation | Education
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  Nikolas Karagiaouris on the past, present and future of Greek opera

  Sep 12, 2019 Arts in Greece
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  Roderick Beaton on the bicentenary of the Greek War of Independence

  Sep 11, 2019 Culture | Society
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  Reading Greece: Yu Jian on the Revival of Modern Chinese Poetry

  Sep 10, 2019 Reading Greece
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  Drones made in Greece

  Sep 09, 2019 Business | Innovation | Education
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  42nd Short Film Festival in Drama: Youthful and Mature

  Sep 06, 2019 Culture | Society
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  84th Thessaloniki International Fair – The colourful exhibition

  Sep 05, 2019 Business | Innovation | Education
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  SigMag: Thessaloniki Special Issue

  Sep 03, 2019 Culture | Society
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  The Griffin Warrior unlocks secrets of the Mycenaean civilisation

  Sep 02, 2019 Culture | Society
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  “The Stones Speak” in Athens

  Aug 30, 2019 Culture | Society
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  Filming Greece | Yorgos Teltzidis and his stories of people in free fall

  Aug 28, 2019 Filming Greece
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  Reading Greece: Gerhard Falkner on Poetry as a Means to Generate New Images and Radically Changing Realities

  Aug 28, 2019 Reading Greece
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  Greek PM announces complete lift of capital controls

  Aug 27, 2019 Politics | Polity
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  1st Crete International Poetry Festival Underway

  Aug 23, 2019 Culture | Society
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  Reading Greece: Konstantinos Kosmas on German-Greek Cultural Exchanges and the Edition Romiosini Publishing Program

  Aug 19, 2019 Reading Greece
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  A brief history of radio in Greece, and a small museum in the Peloponnese

  Aug 06, 2019 Culture | Society
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  Mikis Theodorakis: Music, politics, passion

  Jul 29, 2019 Culture | Society
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  Yannos Kourayos, bringing the archaeological site of Despotiko to life

  Jul 26, 2019 Arts in Greece
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  24 July 2019: 45 years since the Restoration of Democracy

  Jul 23, 2019 Politics | Polity
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  25th Kalamata Dance Festival

  Jul 18, 2019 Culture | Society
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  Reading Greece: Vasiliki Petsa on the Multicultural, Multiethical and Multigenerational Nature of Greek Literature

  Jul 17, 2019 Reading Greece
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  Filming Greece | “Holy Boom”: Maria Lafi on her Resurrectionless Easter

  Jul 16, 2019 Filming Greece
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  Reading Greece: Aristea Papalexandrou on Poetry as a Creative Act

  Jul 13, 2019 Reading Greece
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  Lavrion, the first company town in Greece: foreign capital, industrial experience and multiethnicity at the turn of the century

  Jul 12, 2019 Culture | Society
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  The Fourth CIAM Congress of 1933 in Athens and the foundations of Western urbanism

  Jul 11, 2019 Culture | Society
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  Athens & Epidaurus Festival 2019: an opening to Diversity

  Jul 10, 2019 Culture | Society
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  Greek Parliamentary Elections: New government

  Jul 09, 2019 Politics | Polity
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  Greek parliamentary elections

  Jul 06, 2019 Politics | Polity
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  Bridges Awards: The new initiative for awarding the cooperation among Greeks all over the world

  Jul 04, 2019 Business | Innovation | Education
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  Discover Cape Sounion

  Jul 03, 2019 Culture | Society
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  Exhibition: "Picasso and Antiquity"

  Jul 02, 2019 Culture | Society
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  Reading Greece: Maria Martzoukou on Greek-Finnish Encounters

  Jul 01, 2019 Reading Greece
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  Filming Greece | Angelos Frantzis: Whodunit is of little concern to me

  Jun 28, 2019 Filming Greece
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  Reading Greece | Sofka Zinovieff: "I have a strong belief in the resilience of Greeks"

  Jun 27, 2019 Reading Greece
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  Rethinking Greece | Elli Lemonidou on WWI in Greek Public History and cinema

  Jun 26, 2019 Rethinking Greece
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  Ntina Tzouvala on the history of international law and its impact on the Balkans

  Jun 25, 2019 Interviews
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  Reading Greece: Pavlina Marvin on the Absence of a National Book Policy and the Unifying Properties of Poetic Creation

  Jun 23, 2019 Reading Greece
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  Reading Greece: “Turkey: The Train of the Great Modernisation”. Interview with George Angeletopoulos and Evangelos Aretaios on hybrid identities and subverting the clichés

  Jun 21, 2019 Reading Greece
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  Fuad Kavur remembers Hadjidakis

  Jun 20, 2019 Culture | Society
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  REN21 GSR – Greece among top renewable energy countries

  Jun 19, 2019 Business | Innovation | Education
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  Filming Greece | Syllas Tzoumerkas on successfully getting out of quagmires

  Jun 18, 2019 Filming Greece
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  Reading Greece: Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke on Poetry as an Endless Source of Revival and the Creation of a New Poetic “Cosmogony”

  Jun 16, 2019 Reading Greece
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  Rethinking Greece | Interview with Moses Elisaf, the first Greek Jew to be elected Mayor

  Jun 13, 2019 Rethinking Greece
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  The third travel of Greek Animation to Annecy International Animation Film Festival

  Jun 12, 2019 Culture | Society
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  PM Tsipras requests the dissolution of the Parliament and snap elections

  Jun 11, 2019 Politics | Polity
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  Thessaloniki Queer Arts Festival 2019

  Jun 07, 2019 Culture | Society
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  Rethinking Greece: Artemis Leontis on the cultural biography of Eva Palmer Sikelianos and the modern reception of Classical Greece

  Jun 04, 2019 Rethinking Greece
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  H.E. Krister Kumlin: "The return of the Parthenon Marbles to Athens is a question of moral principle"

  Jun 04, 2019 Arts in Greece
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  13th Los Angeles Greek Film Festival going strong

  Jun 03, 2019 Culture | Society
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  Art historian Alexandra Kouroutaki on Erotokritos’ intercultural substance and influence on Greek painting

  May 31, 2019 Culture | Society
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  Reading Greece: Emilios Solomou on the Challenges and Prospects of Greek Literature Abroad

  May 29, 2019 Reading Greece
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  Athens Music Week - First edition

  May 29, 2019 Culture | Society
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  European elections results - PM calls snap national elections

  May 27, 2019 Politics | Polity
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  The battle of double elections is about to start

  May 25, 2019 Politics | Polity
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  Napoleon Maravegias: What is at stake in the European elections

  May 24, 2019 Opinion | Analysis
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  Meet the Hellinikon Project - Greece’s Mega Investment

  May 23, 2019 Business | Innovation | Education

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